GREENOCK

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Arrived Greenock early morning, decided to stay around Greenock and take in the local sites as it is a 45 minute train ride to Glasgow and the ship really pushes the big tours which we are not interested in. We had a big warm welcome from the Scots at Greenock, the Inverclyde Tourist Group is a volunteer group that meet the ship, we could learn a thing or two from them, they were fantastic, loads of people willing to give as much information as possible and to promote their area, they say its taken them 13 years to convince ships that Greenock is a destination in itself. They have won an MBE for their community service, there are about 50 volunteers - which is huge for a small community. They offered three different free tours, which we did one and it was fantastic. 20 seater bus with two volunteers giving us a rundown on the different sites we went to, went for over 2 hrs. Didn't realise that Greenock was a big military base during the 2nd World War. Lots of coves and lochs with many boats and yachts out on the water. Who said Scotland was a cold place? Our guides were just about expiring - the heat was getting to them and they couldn't wear their tartan jackets. About 24 degrees - we did quite a walk around the town as well and bought up a couple of bottles of wine etc to do us for the next couple of days. Had their pipe band farewell us as well as some of the volunteers - big day for them we arrived 8.00a.m. and left at 7.00p.m. The band was very entertaining and topped off a great day in Greenock.

Happy Birthday Blake

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Photos

GOUROCK
What a spot for a caravan park!

GREENOCK
Sailing paradise!

GOUROCK
All lovely stone houses

GREENOCK PORT
The pipe band with the big Scot

GOUROCK
The fields where the Catalina hangers were in World War II